Essays Tagged: "1940s"

itstime. He was a man of pioneering spirit, ingenuity, and daring, whorevolutionized Detroit in the 1940s with his stunning car of tomorrow.It was streamlined, futuristic, and fast the car every Ameri ...

sen a poem by W.H. Auden to represent the early portion of this century- specifically the 1930s and 1940s. I knew I had to include a song from my idol Jim Morrison. Not only is he the perfect voice of ...

and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The 1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June 1944: at Oradour-sur- ...

George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum, provided one of the first important clues in the early 1940s. Working with the fungi Neurospora and Penicillium, they found that "genes direct the formatio ...

AUSTRALIA IN THE 1940s AND 1950sReflectionsAustralia was a very different country from what it is today.The populatio ... aper than today.Unfamiliar migrants and the low cost of living were only two aspects of life in the 1940s and 1950s that are unrecognisable to us today.From the first European settlement, Australia wa ... am employment confining them to unemployment, poverty and low paid work as domestic servants.In the 1940s and the 1950's, they were denied the full civil and human rights enjoyed by other Australians. ...

ret radiation experiments carried out on sick and healthy people by the US Energy Department in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Tuskegee study to investigate the effects of untreated syphilis on illitera ...

set up in the early 1930s, but the most infamous and deathly camps didn't come into play until the 1940s. For example, Auschwitz, on of the most notorious death camps that had both a gas chamber and ...

us dialogues and the actions of the protagonist within the novel.Set in the conservative society of 1940s Algeria, Meursault, the protagonist, is faced with dealing with death and it is in his reactio ...

he exhibit walks you through the process of how the Nazi party raised support in Germany during the 1940s. The use of propaganda primarily against Jews and other groups such as Catholics, gypsies, and ...

became the world's largest motorcycle company by producing 28,000 motorcycles annually.In the early 1940s (during WWII) Harley-Davidson had another chance to increase production. The company's motorcy ...

ates.A Brief History of Political Advertising in BrazilDuring Getulio Vargas administration, in the 1940s, Brazil saw the dawn of political marketing. His title "father of the poor" seemed to be more ...

rds," a book of 90 black-and-white photographs taken in Mississippi graveyards during the 1930s and 1940s. She said the pictures were taken at a time when "Mississippi had no art but cemeteries."She w ...

his. It is not a lie, but a sublime truth."Cannabis, an herb of countless uses, has been, since the 1940s, an illegal substance in these United States of America. This should not be so. For many, cann ...

s, La Raza, and Mex-Americans. While the term Chicano has gone in and out of fashion since the late 1940s, it is still the preferred identification for many Mexican Americans. The term Mexican America ...

ehavior is a very complex issue, some people have wanted to find a quick fix to the problem. In the 1940s and 50s, comic books were named the number one reason for the rise in juvenile delinquency. Fe ...

ollapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. Beginning in the United States, the depression spread to most of the world's industrial count ...